1977 in film - Academy Awards

See also: 1976 in film 1977 1978 in film 1970s in film years in film film 1977 in film - Events. In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network. Rocky picks up an Academy Award for Best Picture and All The President's Men wins Jason Robards the Supporting Actor and an Art Direction for George Jenkins and George Gaines. May 25 - ...

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Woody Allen - Early films. His first movie production was What's New, Pussycat? in 1965, for which he wrote the screenplay. It was a largely unpleasant experience for Allen as he was trapped in Paris for six months during the production. Furthermore, the studio never showed much respect for his script, altering the film to the point where it bore little resemblance to Allen's original vision. Allen's first directorial effort was What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), in which an existing Japanese spy movie ...

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Allen studied the clarinet since adolescence. When he changed his name for show business, he took his first name from an idol, famed clarinettist Woody Herman. He has performed publicly at least since the late 1960s, notably with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on the soundtrack of Sleeper. "Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band" plays every Monday evening at Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel, specializing in classic New Orleans jazz from the early twentieth century. The documentary film Wild Man Blues (directed by Barbara Kopple) documents a 1996 European tour by Allen and his b ...

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List of people from Nebraska - Film/Theater. Adele Astaire (1897-1981), dancer and entertainer Fred Astaire (1899-1987), dancer and actor John Beasley (1943 -), actor Ward Bond (1903-1960), actor Marlon Brando (1924-2004), Academy Award winning actor Montgomery Clift (1920-1966), actor James Coburn (1928-2002), actor Sandy Dennis (1937-1992), actress David Doyle (1929-1997), actor Henry Fonda (1905-1982), Academy Award winning ...

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Joseph Cotten - Early Life and Career. Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Cotten worked as an advertising agent after graduating from the Washington, D.C., Hickman School, where he studied acting. His work as a journalist, specifically a theatre critic, inspired him to become more involved in theatre productions, first in Virginia, and later in New York. Cotten made his Broadway debut in 1930, and soon became friends with up-and-coming actor/director/producer Orson Welles. In 1937 he joined Welles' Mercury Theater Company, with which he starred in productions o ...

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Jaws film - Mysterious death. The film opens with a young girl swimming a little far from Amity Island, a New England island that is a summer resort akin to Martha's Vineyard, loosely based in name on the Long Island town of Amityville. Suddenly, she begins to get jerked around and is pulled under. The next morning, Martin Brody (Scheider), the Amity Island Chief of Police, finds some of her remains and concludes ...

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1970s - Environmentalism. The seventies touched off a mainstream affirmation of the environmental issues early activists from the '60s, such as Rachel Carson, warned about. The moon landing that had occurred at the end of the previous decade transmitted back concrete images of the earth as an integrated, life-supporting system and shaped a public willingness to preserve nature. On April 22, 1970, the United States celebrated its first Earth Day in which over two thousand colleges and universities and roughly ten thousand p ...

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The musical pieces used in the film: Johann Sebastian Bach — Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 (Stokowski's own transcription for symphony orchestra) (abstract images) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a (a variety of dances, just as in the original, but danced by animated fairies, mushrooms, fish, etc.) Paul Dukas — L'apprenti sorcier (English title: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, with Mickey Mouse in the role of the apprentice) Igor Stravinsky — T ...

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Fantasia film, Fantasia film - Music program, Fantasia film - The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Fantasia film - Fantasound, Fantasia film - Production and synopsis of remaining segments, Fantasia film - Film presentation, Fantasia film - Release history, Fantasia film - Fantasia theatrical release history, Fantasia film - Critical reception, Fantasia film - Updates, Fantasia film - Clair de Lune, Fantasia film - Other proposed sequences and Fantasia 2000, Fantasia film - Credits, Fantasia film - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Fantasia film - The Nutcracker Suite, Fantasia film - The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Fantasia film - Rite of Spring, Fantasia film - The Pastoral Symphony, Fantasia film - Dance of the Hours, Fantasia film - Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria, Fantasia film - Live-action interludes and introductions, Fantasia film - Titles in different languages, Fantasia film - Parodies

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Horror film - Notable directors. Dario Argento Clive Barker Mario Bava Tod Browning John Carpenter William Castle Roger Corman Don Coscarelli Wes Craven David Cronenberg Sean S. Cunningham - also producer Ruggero Deodato Terence Fisher Freddie Francis Jesus Franco Lucio Fulci John Gilling Alfred Hitchcock Tobe Hooper Takashi Miike

Although Chaplin had his major successes in the United States and was a resident from 1914 to 1952, he retained his British nationality. During the era of McCarthyism, Chaplin was accused of "un-American activities" as a suspected communist; and J. Edgar Hoover, who had instructed the FBI to keep extensive files on him, tried to end his United States residency. FBI pressure on Chaplin grew after his 1942 campaign for a second front in the war, and reached a critical level in the late 1940's, when Congressional figures threatened to call him as a witness in hearings. This was never done, probably because of fear of Chaplin's abi ...

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List of Argentines - A-G. Miguel Abuelo, musician (Los Abuelos de la Nada) Ernesto Acher, musician and jazz composer Alfredo Alcón, actor Norma Aleandro, (1936-) actress Héctor Alterio (1929-), actor Pampita (Carolina Ardohain) (1981-), model and actress Pablo Alarcón (1946-), actor Gato Barbieri, saxophonist Lorena Bernal, Gilda (Miriam Alejandra Bianchi), pop singer Lola Berthet, actress ...

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At the age of thirteen, Donald's parents sent him to the New York Military Academy hoping to channel his energy and assertiveness in a positive manner. Trump attended Fordham University before transferring to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics, he joined his father's real estate company. Trump moved to Manhattan in 1971. In his book, Art of the Deal, Trump discusses his undergraduate career: "After I graduated from the New York Mil ...

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She was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, the third child of Thomas E. LeSueur (1868-1938) and Anna Bell Johnson (1884-1958), who was of Irish and Scandinavian descent. Her older siblings were Daisy LeSueur, who died as a very young child, and Hal LeSueur. Her father, who was born in Tennessee, was of distant French Huguenot extraction. His ancestors immigrated from London, England, in the early 1700s to Virginia, where they lived for several generations. LeSueur was said to have abandoned the family in Texas; Crawford later said she had been ...

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De Niro was born in New York City, the son of Robert De Niro, Sr., an abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, and poet of Italian descent (De Niro's grandfather was an Italian immigrant from Molise), and Virginia Admiral, also a painter. They had met at the painting classes of Hans Hoffman in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His parents divorced when he was two years old. A biographer, John Baxter, claims that his father was homosexual, and had relationships with poet Robert Duncan, playwright ...

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Korean War - Artistic depiction. Artist Pablo Picasso's painting Massacre in Korea (1951) depicted violence against civilians during the Korean War. By some account, civilian killings committed by U.S. forces in Shinchun, Hwanghae Province was the motive of the painting. In South Korea, the painting was deemed anti-American, a longtime taboo in the South, and thus was prohib ...

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Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky in Amsterdam, New York to Herschel Danielovitch and Bryna Sanglel, poor Belarusian Jewish parents (who came from Homel, also known as Gomel). He was on the wrestling team at St. Lawrence University. To help make his way through college, he thought getting an acting scholarship might work. His talents got him noticed at the acclaimed American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, where he soon received a scholarship, along side classmate Betty Joan Perske (better, and soon to be known as Lauren Bacal ...

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In 1929 at the time she wed her first husband, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Crawford bought a mansion at 426 North Bristol Avenue in Brentwood, midway between Beverly Hills and the Pacific Ocean, which was her primary dwelling for the next 26 years. Over the years she had her home decorated and redecorated by William Haines, her former silent movie co-star and lifelong friend, who was much in demand as an interior designer ...

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For a detailed listing of albums, singles, and production/songwriting work Prince has done for other musicians, please see Prince discography. Prince artist - Top Twenty albums. The following albums reached the Top Twenty on either the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart, or the UK Albums Chart. Prince artist - Top Ten singles. The following singles reached the Top Ten on one or more of the following charts: the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Mus ...

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Although her sister Jackie Collins is a best-selling writer, Joan Collins has ventured into writing on a handful of occasions. Her two best-selling memoirs are Past Imperfect (1978) and Second Act (1996). She has written several best-selling fictional novels: Prime Time, Love & Desire & Hate, Infamous, Star Quality and Misfortune's Daughters. On February 29, 1996, Collins won a U.S. $2 million suit with Random House for breach of contract. Humiliated by the claims that sh ...

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Relatively little is known about Thomas Pynchon as a private person; however, in the March 1977 issue of Playboy Magazine a Cornell University friend, writer Jules Siegel published a lengthy article entitled "Who is Thomas Pynchon, and why did he take off with my wife?" about his relation to Pynchon. Siegel claims Pynchon had a complex about his teeth (so far as to have undergone oral surgery), was nicknamed "Tom" at Cornell, acted as best man at Siegel's wedding, and that he later also had an affair with Siegel's wife. In the article ...

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